Who gets kicked out of his NHL debut?
“My first game, I got thrown out for a third man in,” Bob Boughner recalled, laughing. “I probably only lasted seven, eight minutes.”
It was February 3, 1996. The 24-year-old defenseman had just been traded to the Buffalo Sabres and was debuting in Boston. A minute into the middle frame, Boughner interceded after Dean Chynoweth’s stick met teammate Brian Holzinger’s face.
“I remember all my family, my parents, aunts and uncles, getting together at a restaurant. Back in those days, they had the big satellite dish, the only place you could get the game,” Boughner said.